Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains during the Depression, going from sod huts to new framed houses to basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out.
The Seattle correspondent for The New York Times ranges through the Pacific Northwest--from the salmon fisheries and logging camps to the used-up "resource towns" and the manicured English gardens of Vancouver--in this exemplary blend of history, geology, anthropology, and politics. A Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award winner.
Each of these essays takes place in one of 11 states west of the Mississippi River. The author, a third-generation native of the American West, combines history, myth, and contemporary circumstances--commercial, ecological, political--in this entertaining tribute to the region. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
On the night of September 4, 1935, during a season of unsolved robberies, the town marshal of Pend Oreille County in the state of Washington was shot to death. Here is the story of how one man's hunt through a half century of police cover-ups unlocked the secret behind the nation's oldest continuing murder investigation.
In "The Worst Hard Time," Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history. Now he performs the same alchemy with this story of the largest-ever forest fire in America, painting a moving portrait of the people who lived through the disaster.
Angelo Cartolano is a winemaker near Seattle, where his daughter, Brunella, works as an architect. When his son, Angelo, is killed, along with his men, fighting a nearby forest fire, U.S. Forest Service investigators suspect that the deaths were due to Angelo's own negligence. Father and daughter are devastated, Angelo's death plus her own face ...
In 1853 Theodore Winthrop traveled through what has become Washington, Oregon and British Columbia to experience a land that he believed would change the character of man. Timothy Egan of The New York Times retraces Winthrop's footsteps to appraise the outcome of his prophecy. Maps.
The storms that terrorised America's high plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people who held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer-prize winning "New York Times" journalist and author, Timothy Egan follows half a dozen families and their communities through the rise ...
The editors of the feisty, award-winning western newspaper, High Country News, gather here an eclectic and gutsy group of western writers to tackle the issues of the day.
Knute "Skip" Berger's trenchant commentaries in his "Mossback" column for "Seattle Weekly," and now Crosscut.com, have made him one of the most popular and prickly figures in Seattle journalism. This book collects the best of those columns on politics, culture, enterprise, and odd local behavior. For anyone who wants to understand the Pacific ...
On the night of September 4, 1935, during a season of unsolved robberies, the town marshal of Pend Oreille County in the state of Washington was shot to death. Here is the story of how one man's hunt through a half century of police cover-ups unlocked the secret behind the nation's oldest continuing murder investigation.
Seattle's scenic backdrops, charming neighborhoods, distinct landmarks, and spirited personality come through in Krebs' superb images of this unique city.
Published in association with the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., "Fields of Vision: Recording a Century of American Life" is a completely new presentation of an historically significant collection of photographs. The 77,000 photographs in the Library of Congress' collection from the Resettlement Administration (RA, 1935-1937), Farm ...
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